Being an advocate

Grapevine runs an advocacy group called Citywide, a group for people with learning disabilities. I had been a member of citywide before I started working for Grapevine. Since I started work I sometimes help out. There was a 2 day training event at citywide and I went to do the training. It was great, I really got into that meeting, the meeting was about choice and control. This means that people with learning disabilities have the right to choose where to live or even have their own money. Control is where people with learning disabilities have their own money taken off them by their carers or parents. Or when the carers and parents are concerned that people with learning disabilities can’t live or even run a house and that is where they are wrong.